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...calculated the energy-to-weight ratio of various fuels. Fooling around with airtight chambers, he found that a rocket could indeed fly in a vacuum, thanks to Newton's laws of action and reaction. Fooling around with basic chemistry, he learned, most important, that if he hoped to launch a missile very far, he could never do it with the poor black powder that had long been the stuff of rocketry. Instead, he would need something with real propulsive oomph--a liquid like kerosene or liquid hydrogen, mixed with liquid oxygen to allow combustion to take place in the airless...
Goddard was thrilled with his triumph but resolved to say little about it. If people thought him daft when he was merely designing rockets, who knew what they'd say when the things actually started to fly? When word nonetheless leaked out about the launch and inquiries poured into Clark, Goddard answered each with a pinched, "Work is in progress; there is nothing to report." When he finished each new round of research, he'd file it under a deliberately misleading title--"Formulae for Silvering Mirrors," for example--lest it fall into the wrong hands...
...students' nascent Web site, theSpark.com, will launch the newest literature summaries on the market, in the style of Cliffs' Notes: "Sparknotes...
...April 15, Eli W. Bolotin '98-'99, Chris R. Coyne '99, Max N. Krohn '99 and Sam A. Yagan '99 will launch Sparknotes as the newest service on their Web site. Sparknotes will review 40 of the most popular books in high school literature classes...
Since the March 14 launch of the site, theSpark.com has generated more than 50,000 registered users and traffic has reached up to 100,000 hits in one day, according to Yagan...